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Category Archives: Court Cases
Give me an ear! “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!” We’ve all heard that line from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar hundreds of times, used and misused in so many contexts. But maybe we weren’t quite expecting it to be, um, … Continue reading
Posted in Court Cases, Statutes
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Basics of citing a reported case Reader John Tumulty came across a book of court opinions that was digitized by Google Books that includes a mention of a collateral relative, one Howell P. Reynolds, testifying as a 13-year-old witness in … Continue reading
Posted in Court Cases, General
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Digitizing the orphans Sometime later this year or early next year, in two different courtrooms in the Federal Courthouse in Manhattan in New York, two cases will be decided that could greatly affect how easily and how readily researchers, including … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Court Cases
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His, hers, or theirs? Back about a hundred years ago… or in March… the subject here at The Legal Genealogist was name changes by immigrant ancestors. In that discussion of What’s in a name?, we came to understand that the … Continue reading
Posted in Court Cases, General, Statutes
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The language of the law. Part Latin, part Anglo-Saxon, all confusing. It’s accretion when the ordinary routine flow of water ends up taking dribs and drabs of soil, sand and rocks from one side of the river and depositing them … Continue reading
Posted in Court Cases, Legal definitions
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The language of the law. Part Latin, part Anglo-Saxon, all confusing. So Landlord and Tenant have a dispute over rent and Landlord waltzes in one day, and, in satisfaction of the rent then due and owing, helps himself to “one … Continue reading
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Corpus, not corpse At 2:00 this afternoon, the Vermont Judicial Historical Society will put on a mock trial centering on the disappearance, 200 years ago, of one Russel Colvin of Manchester, Vermont.1 To all eyes, in those early days of … Continue reading
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Mason Lee’s will So The Legal Genealogist gets a request from Charlie Purvis: Would you please give us an article discussing & summarizing an 1827 case – Heirs at Law of Mason Lee vs Executor of Mason Lee. (Marlboro County, … Continue reading
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Virginia court cases on CD There is very little in this world that The Legal Genealogist likes better than published reports of old court cases. But fully searchable CD-ROM versions of lots and lots of early court cases definitely make … Continue reading
Posted in Court Cases, Resources
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Those odd-looking books on the shelf So I’m back in Kentucky for the last few days of this combination NGS-and-research trip, still hunting for so much as a footprint to prove my 2nd great grandfather George Washington Cottrell really was … Continue reading
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